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Paris attacks: third Bataclan attacker identified by police

Foued Mohamed-Aggad’s older brother was said to be detained in Syria.

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The 23-year-old man is from a small town near Strasbourg who traveled to Syria in 2013, the stations said.

Several of the group, but not the Bataclan suicide bomber, were later arrested when they arrived in France, according to sources.

In all, 130 people died in the November 13 attacks on Paris, with the worst of the carnage at the Bataclan.

The attacks, which killed 129 people and wounded hundreds more, were masterminded by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was himself killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis a few days later. The paper’s report did not immediately clarify when Aggad returned to France.

Identifying the third attacker has taken weeks, in part due to the state of the bodies, who blew themselves up when a police swat team closed in.

The other two attackers at the Bataclan, among seven who died in the assaults, have been named as Samy Amimour, 28, from Drancy, north east of Paris, and Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, who lived in Chartres, south west of Paris.

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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalization in 2010 but, before Friday, he had “never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association”.

People share a quiet moment in front of flowers candles and messages at the Place de la Republique in Paris